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MILK COOLER.

No. 302,233. Patented July 22, 1884. l\\\ ./ttorney N. PETERS. Prmoumgnphen wnhingim. mc.

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MILK COOLER.

No. 302,233. Patented July 22, 1884.

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.dttorney UNITED STATES A PATENT OEEICEo MILK-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,233, dated July 22, 1884.

Application filed October 26, 1883. (No model.)

. erence being had to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved milk-cooler with the cover removed; Fig. 2, .a longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 3 a cross-section.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in milk-coolers; and the object thereof is to improve the construction of this class of devices,whereby they will be rendered more effective, simpler `in their parts, and capable of being manufactured and placed in the market at a greatly reduced cost, and in every way possessing many advantages not found in the coolers of ordinary use. struction substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the outer casing or tank, lined with suitable sheet metal and supported by legs a, said tank being preferably ofrectangular shape and containing water-pipes B. Ihese pipes are pref erably perforated for the escape in jets of the cold water; but the perforations may be dispensed with and the pipes so arranged and constructed that a continuous current of water through the pipes will be kept up, the water escaping at the opposite ends from where it is introduced. These pipes B are located in about the center of the tank A, and extend upward to near the top thereof and then horizontally and lengthwise of said tank,the pipes being connected to a supply-pipe, b, upon the outside of the tank at its end, which is provided with a faucet, c, for turning on or off the supplyof water.

At the opposite end of the tank Ais a drainpipe, d, which may, if desired, be provided with a suitable faucet 5 also an overiiow-pipe,

These several obj ects I attain by the cony e, having two branches, f g, the lower one,

when not required for us'e, being turned 'off or/v closed by a faucet, h. Either branch of the overflow-pipe may be used, as found necessary.

Within the tank A is suspended the sheetmetal vat C for containing the milk, said vat having a rim, 13, of wood around its four sides, which rests upon the edge of the tank, and being provided with handles la for raising the vat out of the tank and replacing it, guide stops Z at the corners of the tank keeping the vat in the center thereof and preventing it from lateral displacement. A pipe, on, at one end of the vat C registers with and extends into a pipe, n, upon'the outer end of the tank, through which the milk can be drawn off when desirable. The vat C has centrally and longitudinally arranged cooling-plates D, each pair forming a central hood or space in which the pipes B are located, the water, as it escapes 'in j ets, impinging against the sides of the plates andagainst the tops thereof, thereby cooling the milk in the vat at the center. The air in the tank A escapes through the tubes -p and out through perforations or holes 9 in the rim of a glass cover, E, placed over the vat O.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a milk-cooler, asuitable tank containing pipes arranged as shown, one end thereof eX- tending out through the end of the tank and upward and provided with a faucet to forni a supply-pipe, and the tank at its opposite end having an overiiow-pipe with branches and a drain-pipe, and also having upwardly-extending guide-stops upon the sides, in combination with a vat provided with cooling-plates, and air-tubes connected thereto, said vat having suitable handles and a glass cover formed with a perforated rim, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT R. BROWN.

Witnesses:

IRvIN I. OGDEN, W. H. GooNs. 

